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33 16 FABLED STORIES FROM THE ZOO.
time I had arrived at the farthest end of the
hall, and presenting myself before a large white
cockatoo, who seemed to be the leading spirit
and to rule the roost of the whole feathered
society, all visitors crowding round him :—
" How do you do ? " I said.
" How do you do ? " answered the cockatoo,
and added : " Scratch my poll."
" Why, that isn’t a very polite introduction,"
I said, laughing.
" What’s the matter?" he retorted. "Scratch
my polL Do!"
I complied with the request, as this seemed
to be the ceremony that would put us on good
terms with each other.
" Thank you," said the parrot, after the
performance, and laughed immoderately, climbing
up and down the cage to show his satisfaction.
" You have a merry life of it here," I said.
The parrot laughed again, and even more
loudly than before, as much as to say: " I
should think we have."
. " This is Vanity Fair," I said.
"School for Scandal," screamed Polly, and
laughed with such hilarity and levity that all
the other hundreds of birds took up the laugh,
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